And the 781 was an absolutely awful AM radio. Terrible on receive, truly lousy
on transmit. Hopefully, the 7800 (or whatever they call the US version) will
be better.
The Orion is GREAT!! on AM, for those few of you with the intelligence, good
taste, appreciation of the finer things, and, of course, the savoir faire to
care :-)
Grant/NQ5T
http://www.globeking.com
> One thing that stands out like a sore thumb for a $8,000 rig is the AM
> filter! It's so wide they don't even
> rate it at its 60dB point..............has a shape factor of 4/1. Icom
> ALWAYS puts does this in even the
> touted 781....................what else do they cut corners on gang. Good
> filters must be hard to come by
> in Japan. I'll buy US Thanks!
>
> 73,
>
> Bill
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Christensen, Esq." <w9ac@arrl.net>
> To: "Ten-Tec Reflector" <Tentec@contesting.com>;
> <TenTec_Orion@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 6:54 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] Re: IC-7800 Product Literature
>
>
> > Also, look on page 5 of the IC-7800 product detail. It appears the
> IC-7800
> > uses a 6 kHz roofing filter in the first I.F for SSB/CW.....it is not
> > limited to a 15K filter like the 756PRO/Pro-II.
> >
> > The Specifications, rear panel photo and block diagram appear on page 4.
> > Here's the link again for those who missed my last post:
> >
> > http://qtc-japan.net/2001/03_news&topics/ic-7800new.pdf
> >
> > -Paul, W9AC
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Paul Christensen, Esq." <w9ac@arrl.net>
> > To: "Ten-Tec Reflector" <Tentec@contesting.com>;
> > <TenTec_Orion@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 19:49 PM
> > Subject: IC-7800 Product Literature
> >
> >
> > > And now the moment you've all been waiting for....the details on the
> > > ICOM-7800. Click on the link below and be prepared to wait for a lot of
> > > image and text information in an Adobe .PDF format...
> > >
> > > http://qtc-japan.net/2001/03_news&topics/ic-7800new.pdf
> > >
> > > -Paul, W9AC
> > >
> > >
> >
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